150 Words Every 5th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 4

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  1. acre
    a unit of area used in English-speaking countries
  2. ballerina
    a female ballet dancer
  3. celebration
    a joyful occasion for festivities to mark some happy event
  4. clamp
    a device that holds things firmly together
  5. commercial
    connected with or engaged in the exchange of goods
  6. cruise
    travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing
  7. desert
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  8. difference
    the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
  9. introduction
    the act of beginning something new
  10. nervous
    of or relating to a system of sensory apparatus
  11. pearl
    a smooth round structure in the shell of a clam or oyster
  12. signal
    any action or gesture that encodes a message
  13. solid
    not soft or yielding to pressure
  14. tasty
    pleasing to the palate
  15. volcano
    a fissure in the earth's crust through which gases erupt
Created on Wed Aug 30 15:52:36 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 15:57:29 EDT 2023)

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